Product Description: These poems are freighted with longing and doubt but they are never naïve. Passionate, unflinching family stories and personal loss are here, and yet the will to love breaks all molds.

Product Description: "For Aliki Barnstone, poetry seems a natural medium. The vision and cadences of these poems suggest a sensibility for which poetry is as inevitable as breathing or eating."—Robert PinskyIn Bright Body, Aliki Barnstone seeks to unite mind and body, spirit and matter, the individual and the body politic...read more

Spans four thousand years and the world's major civilizations to anthologize verses by women ranging from Enheduanna, a second millennium B.C. Sumerian princess, to the medieval poets Marie de France and Florencia de Pinar, to noteworthy poets of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries

Product Description: Aliki Barnstone challenges the critical commonplace that Emily Dickinson's poetry did not change and evolve over the course of her career as a poet. She argues that this notion of her lack of development, while it contributes the established myth of the isolated and timeless Dickinson, has tended to diminish our appreciation of her as a poet and thinker, whose work is both an innovative artistic achievement and a cultural commentary...read more

Product Description: A new translation of a poet widely considered one of the most important of the twentieth century. C. P. Cavafy (1863-1933) has written some of the most powerful poems in history. His work uncannily translates history, the record of the many, into an individual personal document...read more

A collection of satirical and intimate poems by the early twentieth-century writer draws on ancient Greek traditions and includes pieces presented from the vantage points of such characters as a spoiled rich boy who plans to enter politics and a pure and ostracized youth who is being destroyed by social mores and poverty.

Product Description: The Shambhala Anthology of Women's Spiritual Poetry celebrates the unique spiritual life of women through a rich selection of poetry written over the past four thousand years, from thirty-six different languages and cultures. It ranges from verse by the first recorded poet, a Sumerian priestess named Enheduanna (circa 2,300 BCE), to Anne Sexton; from early Buddhist nuns to Emily Dickinson; from Hildegard of Bingen to Tess Gallagher...read more

Product Description: The bloom of Aliki Barnstone's work, her inimitable sensibility and sensitivity, have gathered praise. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Collects a variety of spiritual and visionary poems from women around the world, all of which focus upon divine experience. (view table of contents)

Written by Hilda Dolittle, this set of three poems--including The Walls Do Not Fall, Tribute to the Angels, and The Flowering of the Rod--emphasizes the horrors of war and the passion for survival that it inspires. Reprint. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Multidisciplinary views of Calvinism's dynamic, diverse, and persistent influence on modern American literature and thought. Many of America's philosophical, social, and religious traditions are founded upon Calvinist beliefs, and that heritage inevitably permeates our literature, too...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

This collection of poems reflects the response of a very young girl to color, nature, numbers, the seasons, and the universe